Thanks, Seif! Seif and I have been communicating pretty much on a daily basis with regards to his GSoC project.
He's new to CloudStack, so there was a lot of startup-related overhead. Once he got past that, he started to make great progress. Over the past weekend, he finished coding an enhancement for the Add Primary Storage dialog to enable admins who use custom storage plug-ins (ex. from SolidFire, CloudByte, NetApp, etc.) to be able to provide all necessary configuration details. Prior to this, the admin would have needed to use CloudMonkey or write a script to call the CloudStack API (createStoragePool) directly. I plan to check Seif's code in this week. Seif is now moving on to building a better way for admins to enter in tags (storage or host tags, for example). Right now, we expect admins to enter in a comma-separated list of identifiers, which can be a bit error prone. Seif and I are thinking it would be nicer if CloudStack had a mechanism like JIRA does for accepting such values. If Seif has enough time available toward the end, I'd like to get him some exposure to the generic key/value pairs that are being investigated for 4.6: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42566111 On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Seif Eddine Jemli < seifeddineje...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://imgur.com/II3r0wK > > http://imgur.com/05p8lAG > > I didn't know that the mailing list doesn't accept enclosed screenshots. > > > 2014-06-24 16:21 GMT+02:00 Seif Eddine Jemli <seifeddineje...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > As you probably know, I am working on this project whose goal is making > > the GUI support adding primary storage to CS that is based on storage > > plug-ins > > ( > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Create+GUI+to+add+primary+storage+based+on+plug-ins > > ) > > > > After studying the GUI code, I have been able to change the "Add Primary > > Storage Form" as the storage guys : Mike( my mentor) and Punith wanted > to. > > (I enclosed two screenshots). > > > > I am currently trying to make the Tags inputs (like Storage tags in the > > 'add primary storage' form) more user-friendly. This task include > creating > > a new API call to get the Tags. > > I had a hard time at the beginning to set up Cloudstack for development > > and to understand the GUI code patterns. But I think that progress will > be > > much faster now. > > > > I am all ears to feedback or suggestions that aim to improve the GUI. > > Thanks. > > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud <http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*™*
